The old man before you
Is not reality
What I saw and tell you so
None deemed it to be true
A cry of dismay
Turned my hair into gray
And the odour of the sea
For never shall abandon me

The thund'rous, raging void
In which all oceans end
Took me by supernal force
Into the Maelstrom I descend!

Flashing lights! Crushing sea!
Thunder and storm came unto me!
Blackened clouds and copper moon
Eternity woke from its slumber

All day turned black — and night became
The deeper I was swallowed, the more was still
A descent into maelstrom
A descent into maelstrom

Just how I could escape
To this day I know not
My Brig was torn to shreds
And so the fishers' lot
In my deep despair
I jumped into its eye
It chewed me through and spit me out
And so I found my way up high
Flashing lights! Crushing sea!
Thunder and storm came unto me!
Blackened clouds and copper moon
Eternity woke from its slumber

All day turned black — and night became
The deeper I was swallowed the more was still
A descent into maelstrom
A descent into maelstrom